Desktop Icons

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Desktop Icons
started by: charliez

Posted by charliez on Aug. 14 2006,20:25

Anybody know what specifically controls the desktop icon behavior?

I'm remastering DSL and have stripped out the icons and lnk files from /etc/skel except for Firefox.

I changed the Caption: entry for Firefox but when I go into Fluxbox my new caption is off the left of my display.

I've played with hard setting the X and Y coordinates but when DSL reboots they are lost.

I don't really want to include this file in backup.tar.gz since it's a remaster.

Any pointers?

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 14 2006,20:57

/etc/skel/.xtdesktop/xtdeskrc controls the layout and appearance of the icons.
I'm not sure why your caption would be off to the left.

Posted by kerry on Aug. 14 2006,23:35

Dude change your setting to use double click in the icon tool, then drag and drop your icons where you want them then switch it back to single click remember to turn off the auto align for icons so they stay where you put them.

Posted by charliez on Aug. 15 2006,14:42

I had found /etc/skel/.xtdesktop/xtdeskrc and tried to hand edit that file with my own settings. When I change things and re-launch startx my icons disappear. It's like the file becomes corrupt and doesn't load?

I never found the icon tool before so this morning I adjusted settings with the icon tool until they looked right and then copied from /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/xtdeskrc to $remaster/etc/skel/.xtdesktop/xtdeskrc and created a new ISO that should have had the updated changes.

After rebooting (boot: dsl bootfrom=/dev/my/new/iso) my desktop icons appear off to the left like I don't want them. I cd /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/ and cat xtdeskrc and my updated settings are there so now I'm really confused where/how something else is controlling the desktop layout?

EDIT: don't run startx when you're in ~/.fluxbox or subdirs. I got it to work after realizing this.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 17 2006,18:28

Ah, in previous versions of dsl, I found I had to cd into ~/ before running startx or else some problems would happen.

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 17 2006,18:44

yeah...that's one of those things that doesn't come up often, but it can cause troubles. Some personal configs in DSL use relative paths to files rather than full paths. Xmms and Xtdesk are two I know of offhand.